

It is what generates the “robot-like” singing voice.ĭudley, an engineer at Bell Laboratories, began developing vocoders in 1928 to use electronics to replicate human speech and vocal apparatus.

Now, for a music producer, it is a plugin that imparts the characteristics of the human voice on another sound like a synth pad. The vocoder is a device first developed by Homer Dudley in 1928 to generate continuous human speech electronically. But, before this generation, it had been used by artists like Daft Punk, Beastie Boys, Zedd, and even Michael Jackson. Many think of performers like Jacob Collier, Cory Henry, and Justin Lee Schultz when talking about vocoders.

This article will show what a vocoder is, how it works, and how to use it.
